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Mysteria's Blog/Journal
...for as long as it lasts...I am not sure how long i will be allowed to be here.
Today's entry, my first entry, is going to be pretty journal like.
I am having a tough day. I am sad. So far I have averaged being on this forum about once a week. I do not like to admit this...I am used to being thought of as strong. But this trauma, dealing with this history, being reminded of it, is hard. I have to recover after I've talked about it.
It has been liberating and validating to find other people FINALLY coming together to talk about what we went through.
But I'm also sad, because I'm only sorta welcome here. I am still being judged and belittled. Luckily, I am used to that. I had to develop a strong will, because I learned that people around me could not be trusted, and people in authority did not always necessarily deserve to be there. You had to make do. So I'm used to it...but it still hurts. I'm still sad.
But...maybe if people get to know me they can be a little more open, and maybe for now I can afford to give the benefit of a doubt. None of us are perfect. And there may be some people like me here who will benefit from another one speaking out, as I have been benefited by the people here speaking out.
I woke up angry today.
I wake up angry almost every day, it seems.
I HATE it. I'm pretty sure it's mostly chemical. it is too consistent, both the mood and the obsessive thought patterns.
I do take medication for depression. Thankfully it works really well! It is only in recent years I have learned that depression often affects individuals in the morning. I had not noticed that pattern, but I have had difficultly all my life being anywhere on time, especially if it required morning hours. I almost couldn't hold a job. But I eventually found one where I am able to make my own hours. So thankful. Since then I learned about depression and morning and sleep issues, and so much of my life now makes sense.
I hesitate to say this, but I almost kind of wish I felt merely depressed in the morning still, instead of angry. The anger is getting to me. I have a long relationship with anger. It has helped me in many ways. Anger is important like many "negative" emotions: like physical pain, it is there to tell you when something is wrong, and help you do what you need to protect yourself or get out of a situation. I have respect for anger. In fact it could have saved my life....the years I spent spiraling in depression could have ended differently if I had continually turned inward to myself. Instead I have been able to see and correctly apply fault where it belongs...my parents (no one's are perfect) and of course the leaders in the lc. The world and all that is wrong with it.
But I am tired of being angry now. There doesn't seem to be a flow to it, a useful place for it to go, and it does not seem to have a logical cause. Ever since I started taking the particular medication I take, which is an "upper," I have had more difficulty with sleep also...I wake in the morning early and cannot get back to sleep. My mind races. I actually have to take Benadryl every night to sleep through the night. For now, it works. The only thing disturbing me is the anger. I DO think that the anger may be a chemical result of the very upper that helps me wake up and be alive during the day. But I still want to control the thought patterns. Meditation helps.
I think lately this need to talk about my history, and what I lived through with the lc, is part of it. My previous therapist used to tell me that repeated thoughts, where you're reliving memories as if they've just happened, rather than remembering them AS memories, something that happened in the past and is now over, is sometimes a symptom of a lingering need to be heard. There is something that needs to be expressed that is still bottled up. Something that never got expressed.
This lc history is the only thing I can think of. It is something I have not talked about much with anyone.
I was reflecting on this recently, on the tendency of people to not talk about things that, when heard by others, seem awfully important to be left out or made invisible. I used to wonder why survivors of rape so commonly did not report their experiences, why they sometimes don't come out until years later, and not until someone else has said something first. I'm ashamed to say I found it frustrating. Why wouldn't they? Maybe if they had, we could do something about it! We could stop it from happening again! But I'm older and know a little better now. It really hit me when I read the account of the girl who had been raped by Brock Turner. How she woke up and no one explained anything to her, how she had to put together the pieces, how she found out what happened to her from looking at a newspaper that described some girl found in an alley.
I realized how if that had happened to me, and no one else had been there to talk for me or who had witnessed it, I wouldn't want to talk about it either. I wouldn't want it to be real. Maybe it's not real, not important, if you don't acknowledge it. No one wants to be defined by the worst thing that happened to them. I don't want to be defined by the way I have been hurt by the lc, or by my father (the two are wrapped together almost inextricably). I feel like, the best "revenge" is to live well. Right? To be happy. To not need them. I'm sure we all want that. and that's true, too.
But to pretend it didn't happen, and it doesn't matter, and it doesn't affect me today... *sigh* to pretend I don't relive that hurt when I think about it, and therefore am still harmed as if I were there right now...I can no longer afford to do that. Truth is important to me. It is perhaps the most sacred thing after Love...and I consider them to be pretty much the same anyway. I have always thought that honesty is always the right decision. In particular and in this case, I have to be honest with myself. So here's me being honest.
I'm still grieving and sad.
I'm sad that the people who I thought of as my family let me down, and allowed me to be hurt. I'm sad they didn't accept me. I'm sad they don't understand me even now. I wish they hadn't done things that were wrong. I wish they hadn't hurt the beautiful, innocent soul that I was, and that is still a part of me, no matter how grown up I want to be, no matter how much I've learned, no matter how strong or smart I am...that person, that small person that was innocent and kind and simple and loving, and needed to be loved, is still there. She was abused. She was disregarded. She was "ruined" in a way...marred, when she could have been cultivated. I'm thankful it was not in horrible ways others have been...and I feel horrible for the ways others have been more abused. But she was still abused.
And you don't outgrow that. You just tell about it, I guess. You tell your story, and at least it's yours now and not theirs to tell for you.
I have come to appreciate and respect that human beings are truly fragile. We are inherently imperfect, so even when we don't mean to, we cannot avoid hurting each other. And not meaning to does not erase the effects of our actions. We can't go back and undo them. The best we can do is recognize, apologize, and try to make it right if we can. And when we're on the other end, the best we can do is move on and turn all experience into strength and wisdom, which makes us want to do better ourselves. But part of that moving on is being real, and admitting to being broken and vulnerable, able to be hurt.
I hesitate to say all this here. This may turn out not to be the place to do it...I don't know. I hesitate because when you tell people anything about you that is vulnerable, like being treated for depression, suddenly that becomes a flaw that people throw in your face later when they disagree with you. Suddenly they see you as something to be fixed, and somehow they themselves conveniently know how to fix you.
I wish we would stop trying to fix each other. I wish we would simply recognize the brokenness, the innocence, the simplicity in all of us, the ease with which we hurt, and accept it. And appreciate it. It IS part of what makes every person beautiful. It's okay not to be perfect.
One of the things...perhaps one of the biggest things, for me...that happens in a place like the lc is this complete de-valuing of the very things that make us human. There's a constant striving to be something else, something more. And then constant, CONSTANT shame, for not being able to be anything other than human. The things that make us human are seen as failings, falling short.
Most paths agree that it is desirable to be better. To be the best versions of ourselves we can possibly be. My path includes that belief.
Hmm....I guess that's a good segue to actually get into talking about the path I'm on currently.
So as I've said in other places, yes, I'm a pagan.
And I now realize that that simply means "athiest" to many people. In general, modern culture is still learning to even accept that earth centered religions and neo-constructions of early religions are actually a thing, are actually a serious path for people. So they just assume that being pagan means being nothing. The irony is that's how the word "pagan" came about in the first place...as a derogatory term for people of a different religion that was not seen as THE right one. We do this with words...like "savages" and "primitives." We turn them into small, neat packages of assumptions so that we can use them to alter reality around us.
Eventually, I hope at least some people will find that there really are people who are making connections with what they consider to be the divine and the sacred in other ways. I have learned that even athiests, or "humanists," have spirituality. Spirituality is part of being human. People who profess to a certain belief system do not have a monopoly on it.
In fact, here is the first aspect of paganism that has made it meaningful to me and appealed to me: Faith.
Going from any one paradigm that has become assumption all your life, to another, venturing out either by choice or because you had no choice, is going to test your faith like nothing else. It actually requires faith. It is the very definition of faith, to seek and to know without any certainty, without the approval of others, and sometimes to the disapproval of others. It is this reason people throughout history have actually been willing to lose their lives. They cannot help but have faith. They cannot help but test it. It is that important to them.
To me, even as a Christian, I understood that...that there must be a part of this life, of this walk, that is only faith. that's what faith is: Not knowing. But believing. And not belief, necessarily, as I eventually found, in a particular doctrine or system. The belief is in the idea that there IS anything thing worthwhile about faith. That there IS something to believe in, even if you never completely understand it, and can never prove it. The belief is in the idea that there is something worthwhile to having faith in anything. That there is something worthwhile in striving for goodness, in wanting to know more, in wanting to be something more. That it actually means something if you do that, in a world where it could very easily seem that existence is without "meaning" in the way we think of it. To be willing to make meaning, whether it's there handed to you or not, without knowing if it actually makes any difference, requires faith.
As inconvenient as it was for me at the time, I always knew that to be a person of faith would eventually actually require faith. That is, there would have to be things I'd face that I didn't know or understand or could prove. I did not want that, as I began to grow out of Christianity. I wanted certainty. I felt that everything should make sense. After all, I had been taught that! The lc was the kind of Christianity that had an answer for everything, seemingly. There were always more books upon books that could be published about the same biblical passages and previous books. It seemed there was no end to it. there was always more to say. More to read. If I could just read enough, if I could study and be determined enough, if I was spiritual enough, everything would eventually make sense.
So I was very upset when some of it started not to make sense. At all. I felt betrayed and let down. I was angry. And then I grieved. Because the inconvenient truth about that kind of belief system, is that it acts like a frame. It is a very filled out paradigm, where every beam rests on every other beam. If one piece does not make sense, it begins to make the others not make sense, too. If you take something away, the entire structure will come crashing down. It is that fragile, that specific, that complicated, that complex. You HAVE to believe or accept every piece of it to accept ANY of it.
Well, some things did not make sense.
This is the thing I feel I can never properly convey to people who hear the word "pagan" and give me the side-eye: How much I did NOT try to look for things that did not make sense. How much and how hard I wanted to accept it all. How much I wished that I was actually the problem, and not the structure, or the people I looked to. I thought for sure I would find out I was the problem! I was willing to remake myself. I was willing to erase myself. Even as it made me sick somewhere deep inside, as I dreaded my own death, I sought it out.
This is why I went to the FTT: I thought, like many other young adults in the lc, that if I went there, it would fix me. It would fix whatever was wrong with me that made this so hard, and then I could be at peace, and not feel anything awful...I would be able to enjoy my relationship with God without the inconvenient interruptions of the failures and mistakes of others or the doubts and contradictions that came with the fact that I must just not understand enough.
I sometimes feel like if people understood that, how hard I worked to do that, how much I did NOT want to be anything other than Christian, and the BEST kind of Christian, they might judge me less for leaving it. They might understand that I was genuine and true. That I was just like them, instead of making the narrative in their head that I must not have been a "real" believer. ("No true scotsman.") But in any case, that's how it was. We're talking about a child raised from my earliest memories on Bible stories, who took those lessons very seriously and began living them from the getgo. A child who prayed for wisdom because Solomon did, on the night I first heard that story, because clearly that pleased God, and then he would be MY friend like Solomon's, even more than before.
Clearly that was THE way to be, the way to be the best possible Christian. If someone holds a standard in front of a human, they will usually want to get to it! Unless they want to do the opposite or are the rare person who doesn't care. But I was the kind who wanted to go as far as any distance was marked out. As long as there was a line to reach that was beyond me, I wanted to reach it. Such is true with all spiritual people throughout the ages, all the seekers and mystics. And all the disciples, too.
But in any case, whether people believe that or not, or understand it or not, that was what was true for me. I did not want to have to question anything. All it did was make life hard. All it did was make every "answer" imperfect and incomplete. All it did was provide me with more work. All it did, was make me responsible for everything.
And that leads me to the second thing that is important to me about paganism: Personal responsibility.
This is difficult to explain because I'm still figuring out how it works for others besides me and those like me, but the simple way to put it is paganism and "magick" or the occult or witchcraft or whatever you want to call it (yes, I know all those terms are scary and terrifying and evil and if you simply READ them you might become possessed; oh-what-a-sinner-you-are...) are interrelated. Now paganism is usually a belief system, an actual religion with cosmology, eschatology, etc. Magick or craft are practices that may or may not accompany a pagan, but in general in my experience they do. That is easy to explain, though: like the word "pagan," words like "magick" (fyi, people who are talking about magick as a real human practice use the "k" to distinguish it from magic in the fantasy genres or from illusionist entertainment) "witchcraft" and "occult" are general, broad terms that carry flavors and connotations, rather than actual descriptions.
The truth is, what pagans may call "magick" are simply spiritual practices, many of which are found in pretty much every other religion, and all of which, if not currently, were once practiced in those religions. As many ex lc'ers know, things like meditation can be lumped into "the occult" when you're a real fundie. Anything not fundamentalist Christian can and eventually will be linked to the occult one way or another. "Occult" is a word that simply means "mysteries." That which is unknown or unknown to most. So here you can see again how language is just one more tool and weapon used by those who are threatened by ideas like personal responsibility for a moral existence.
Paganism is the kind of religion that, especially if you practice "magick," (and I do), you have to be willing to accept the consequences of your actions. You have to be willing to make decisions, knowing perfectly well you are human, you can make a mistake. But human beings have been given great power and knowledge and ability. To not use it could be seen as NOT responsible. If you for example subscribe to the idea that humanity is meant to rule nature (I don't but it's a good example), then you inherently believe you have a responsibility to do so. NOT doing so is not the responsible version of that. To do simply nothing. to not use the talents, as the parable talks about. Pagan religions and magick systems are not for people who want a parental god or authority. They are not for people who want to stay children forever. They are for people who recognize and are sobered by their own power and responsibility. It's not convenient, but it has over the years given me the growth I sought. I am STILL learning that lesson...that being responsible as a human being often means making decisions knowing that it is possible to make a mistake. There's no guarantee you won't. There's every guarantee that as long as you're alive, you WILL make mistakes. And you HAVE to, because that is how humans learn. So personal responsibility is required to work in a system like paganism. I suppose I needed that, even though I thought I didn't want it. the balance this provides is actual respect for personal sovereignty and the conscience. Respect and even honor.
So in any case, I found it terribly inconvenient, and more than that, horrible and awful, disorienting and in every way undesirable, to find that I was personally responsible for finding my own truth and defining it. Those who were supposed to give it to me were starting to fail; there were gaps and holes and they were not providing satisfactory answers. Worse than that, I could often tell they hadn't even tried to find those answers themselves: they hadn't asked the same questions. Which meant I was surpassing them in spiritual seeking. That was very disconcerting. They hadn't thought to ask the same questions as I, because they didn't need to. Questions like, "Does God really see me as lesser than a man?" Yes, I did actually ask that question, more than once. I did entertain, more than once, that it might be true. (Incidentally, every time I did, I would become physically ill. Like I said about anger earlier, the body has ways of telling us when something is wrong, because we're not always such good listeners. Not listening to the body is another characteristic of lc-style religious systems. You can't trust ANYTHING other than the "authority" on truth, whoever and whatever that is. Not even yourself.)
To these and other important questions, I could not get satisfactory answers. Once you become an adult, and yes, once you do things like go to college and get exposed to wider histories of knowledge and study and culture, you are going to start having to ask questions you didn't have to before. Once I started meeting gay people and understood them to be like me, people who wanted to be anything other than what they were, and couldn't understand why they were different, and had been from the earliest of memories, I could not find anyone who could explain how that was possible if it was truly a "lifestyle choice." And leaving out the fact that the next favorite explanation is that they are "sick," which is a terrible thing to say, by the way, really the explanations I'd grown up with did not make sense next to the lived experiences of someone else.
In fact. for a little while, during my transition from the lc to a more liberal Christianity, and then finally to paganism, I identified with gay people so much in that desperate desire to be different and be what you think God wants, only to find that you can't, and that maybe isn't actually want God wants but no one seems to know that except you...I actually became obsessed with gay narratives for a while. I also followed and read stories of women who had been called into ministry, and how they had been treated in various churches (that would never come up in the lc because it wasn't even a question), and how they could not help but answer their calling, no matter how lonely it was and how much they would have liked to be accepted just like anyone else.
So in any case, it took me years. And it is probably not completely out of my system to this day, though it looks a little different. But it took me years to get comfortable with the idea that being a person of faith meant not ever having an answer for everything, and having to look to oneself for spiritual authority, and be personally responsible not only for my choices, but for my truth and finding it. In fact, not doing so would be irresponsible. How is that faith, to never allow faith to be tested? I knew from those around me, like my mother and especially her, that real people of faith, people who knew God, knew and had learned these hard lessons. That's why they were able to have faith. That's why they were able to hear God. Because they actually learned to listen.
In my path, I have to listen. Neo-paganism is a broad umbrella covering a host of newish religions people are in the act of creating. They are not established like the world's traditional religions, with scriptures and practices handed down. They do come from religions that were once those...but as we know, those people were burned and killed and martyred and sacrificed and converted. Essentially, whole histories were wiped out. So those of us brave enough (yes, I will say I and others are brave to do this) have to feel our way, put together what we can, and experience meaning in systems that do not have a centralized authority. There's enough information to do that, however.
Anyway, I learned from very young that I had a conscience. Since I had one, it was my responsibility to listen to it. It was how God talked to us.
I learned that lesson so well that I was able to follow it even when it meant leaving what I thought was "right" and going a way that I would go mostly alone. And even though it meant venturing into territory I had been taught to fear.
And I guess I'll end this by saying that is a third thing that paganism gives to me, though it is not exclusive to paganism: Truth. I value truth, and a "true" seeker, a true believer (Scotsman, if you will) I think would do so. A seeker follows truth wherever it leaves, looking for it rather than following a prescribed path and seeking only evidence to support it. To follow truth wherever it leads may lead you into darkness...but it's only darkness from the outside. It is only a mystery while it is unexplored and surrounded by an aura of fear.
Divine mysteries are open to anyone who seeks them, and I find that people find them no matter what religion they profess, and they have the same flavor across the board. Even people with supposedly no religion - no badge of affiliation, accreditation or whatever it is that people of religion feel makes them legitimate - have access to the Divine. And they have a truth to offer, too...the ability and faith to be more than what we are, without something outside of themselves telling them they are "supposed" to. If that isn't faith, I don't know what is. I have respect for people who do not need a religion.
I have only scratched the surface here, and still not actually talked about my faith system. I have not talked about what "God" means in my religion, how I experience God, what my practices are, what I actually "believe," etc. I'll get there. The reason I haven't talked about it yet is because that's actually not what's important, in my observation and experience of Truth. I do not actually believe there is such a thing as a "right" religious system. and I know enough now to know that it is very natural and normal for people to leave a religion of childhood right around the age of emerging adulthood, and find something that they will adopt for themselves.
And that it is also true that many people will change more than once over the course of a lifetime. It happened to me once, and so dramatically, that I have respect for the fact that humans do change paradigms, and I should never assume I will always be one way, always the same. Having had it happen to me once, I know that now. Those familiar with Fowler's Stages of Faith will recognize as well this normal shift for people to develop in what they need and get from a belief system. It does not bother or frighten me, because I know now that it it's normal, part of being human, just like eventually growing up and getting married maybe, something that seems ridiculous and impossible when you're a child! Having experienced this, I have respect for that process.
All in all, paganism gives this especially, among religions: Appreciation, honor, and respect for humanity. Most fundamentalist versions of religions (and there are fundie pagans, too) end up orbiting obsessively around somehow escaping the human condition, getting rid of it once and for all, at all costs. Earth centered religions, as paganisms are often called today, are the opposite. They may strive for the best human result one can be...but it's still human. and to do that anyway, you have to understand humanity first. The biggest failing of the lc is that it has no acknowledgement of or respect for the thing most real about us: our humanity. It depends entirely on the abstract. As long as lc'ers stay where they do their best, in the realm of rhetoric, spiritual language, and doctrine, they are pretty much untouchable. There's no reason to demand their demise or find fault with them, just on that basis, except for other fundamentalists who happen to have different doctrine. their only fault there is by virtue of being one among many different interpretations and denominational directions.
But the lc entirely lacks humanity, and it is there where you can see the actual fruits of their beliefs. I'm a big believer in the actions people take speaking louder than words. Actions are what tell you what a person truly believes, no matter what they profess, even to themselves. The actions in the world of the lc betray a fundamental disrespect for humanity as part of the natural world. They want only to see themselves as spiritual. the irony is that whenever a religion does that, they become less spiritual doing so. We are in human bodies and organized into human societies in a world of matter, boundaries, and limitations. to deny that and to worse yet refuse to understand that is to completely and utterly fail at the end goal of being spiritual, which is to be wholely what we are capable of being in the highest sense (and experience moments of union with the divine). Seeking union with the divine being the result is not wrong, but it is silly to think that you can do that in the limitations of a human body...and stay there.
You cannot actually function within the "interface" of the world of matter and society if you want to do that. That's why people who do cannot live with anyone else. (The Buddha's fundamental story is about this very truth.) They have to be separated in monasteries, hermitages, and groups where everyone is like them...so they don't become influenced by having to interact with anything different. The fatal flaw of the lc. Anyone who has been a part of them knows how impossible it is to function and interact with other people if you try to live that way. That was one of the big ironies I found there and in Christianity in general: How can you preach the "gospel" to "sinners," if you can't even bear to be among them?! It is impossible, and that's why evangelism fails so hard the more it depends on this idea of separation.
Anyway...so that's some of my soapbox and my experience, my personal lessons. Maybe next time I will talk about what it is like to know God as a polytheist. And I do not envy anyone who cannot go there. I love that I was able to go there, and I"m very proud of it. I am very happy to be free.
While I wish I would not encounter prejudice, the downsides of that are miniscule compared to the benefits of finding a path for myself, and in my case, one completely separate from the fundamental flaws of the patriarchal, monotheistic Abrahamic religions as they are practiced today. Sorry, but the truth is, I don't miss it, not one bit!
But let me actually end on a better and more spiritually true note: I enjoy so much the exchanges of people's truths, and it doesn't matter what system they belong to. I am glad to read about what Christianity has done for people individually and *personally,* because the truths revealed in them are so humanly universal I recognize them as my own.
When I was Christian, I learned early to find truth and God's voice wherever it showed up, even in unexpected places, and even when people didn't realize they were participating in giving me a message. As a pagan, that is still true. I expect it will always be true, as long as I remain open and willing to see. And that is a lot less lonely and frightening, then living with a paradigm you hope will never, ever fall apart, regardless of what that paradigm is.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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Monday, November 29, 2010
Decor Box With Oralie the Sleepy Mouse
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
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Sunday, November 21, 2010
Candle Tutorial
Good morning! My name is Wanda and I'm so excited to bring you today's tutorial!
I was asked to show you how to put images on candles.
1. First you want to pick your image. You can either pick a image that's already colored or print out one that you want to color. I love Digi stamps because you can adjust them to what ever size you want.
If you have your favorite Digital Delight Rubber stamp you can also use this by stamping on tissue paper.
2. Measure your candle so that you know what size you need.
3. Color you image. I have found that Koh-i-nor pencils work the best. You can also use watercolor pencils. The Bic pens seem to run when you melt the candle.
4. After you finish coloring. Cut out your image. Make sure you cut the negative areas out with a xacto knife.
5. You will need to have wax paper, elastics and your heat gun. If you don't have a heat gun you can use a hair dryer.
7. Wrap the wax paper tightly around the candle and secure with rubber bands.

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If fans of ABC's "Revenge" feel like making a drinking game out of watching the soapy series, they now have a drink of choice: the Black Dahlia.
In Wednesday's episode, "Treachery," the real Emily Thorne--I'll call her Amanda (Margarita Levieva) to make things easier--mixed up a few Black Dahlias for herself and bar hunk Jack (Nick Wechsler). I looked around the web for the drink and found many versions of it. But not the "Revenge" version. So here's the recipe as Amanda said it:
- 3 ounces of vodka
- 1 ounce Creme de cassis
- "A little" blackberry liqueur
- Add ice and shake
She finished it off with a flirty smile and the decision (spoiler alert!) to not fly to Paris and get out of Emily's hair. Instead, she's opting to become a Jack stowaway. Get it? He runs the Stowaway Tavern?
Sorry. I've had a few Dahlias myself. One tip: Never drink these with someone carrying a tire iron. I'm talking about you, stripper girl!


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Part 9: The rough-in plumbing is done! Okay, it was done on Thursday, and I haven't gotten around to blogging it. I'd post pictures, but the pictures of pipes aren't all that interesting.
Then there's Part 10, the purchasing of massive amounts of electrical supplies. We took a 3+ hour trip to Lowes, where we spent about $1300 on outlets, boxes, switches, wire of all kinds, recessed lights, bulbs, fans, tools, tubing, wall plates, and...um...other stuff. Fun!
The Basement (Parts 9 and 10 of 184)
Sunday, October 28, 2007
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It saddens me to have to remove the images from my profile, but an update was drastically needed.
I am a proud Hufflepuff, a former SBBC-er, and a member of the lovely group, SPEW. All of these can be found on the beta forums. I'm very proud of my participation and membership in all three and they've all helped me to expand as a writer.
I'm also exceedingly proud to share that I've won the QSQ for Best Reviewer. Well, I just don't have the proper words to express how much of an honor this is for me.
If you're here looking for something to review (which I invite you to do), I would like to request that you review some of my more recent work. While I appreciate reviews on everything that I've written, they're always twice as sweet on something that is rather new. That said, please don't review My Father's World (it is definitely on permanent hiatus) or Miss Myrtle (which exists only for sentimental reasons these days).
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Let me see if I have this straight. Twitch Film's April Fool's story was about a Special Edition of "Mimic"? Aren't April Fool's pranks supposed to be funny? Or you know, at least interesting?
IFC has picked up the rights to Laurel K. Hamilton's "Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter" series for a television show. Think "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" meets "True Blood", only with worse writing. Try wrapping your head around that one for a while.
Some pics from Thomas Jane's "Dark Country", a film in which he is serving as both writer and director. The story concerns "a couple en route from Las Vegas that are forced to deal with a body out in the desert, making their honeymoon one hellish ride". Tom Jane being the nerd-friendly guy that he is, I've got high hopes for this project. Of course, it doesn't hurt that he's referring to it as a "3D Noir Supernatural Thriller". Daddy like.


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OTTAWA — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge charmed thousands of fans on their first day in Canada with walkabout greetings, sartorial choices that left fashion-watchers beaming — and some fledgling attempts at speaking French.
Prince William drew a roar of appreciation from a crowd of more than 6,000 gathered at the Governor General's residence for the official welcoming ceremony when he opened his first speech in Canada in French.
He earned an even bigger cheer when he mocked his own beginner efforts, promising, "It will improve as we go on," as Kate grinned broadly.
"Catherine and I are so delighted to be here in Canada," he said, switching back to English. "Instilled in us by our parents and grandparents, who love this country, we have been looking forward to this moment for a very long time."
A loud "Aww!" went up from the crowd when the prince added, "before we were married, we both had a longing to come here together."
Earlier, the Canadian Forces Airbus ferrying the couple from London flew over downtown Ottawa — to the delight of the crowds waiting to see them in person — before touching down exactly on time.
Given Kate's reputation as a fashion icon and her decision to skip a personal dresser on her first tour abroad, there'd been much breathless speculation about her wardrobe choices in Canada. She emerged from the plane smiling and waving with her husband and wearing a different outfit than she'd departed Heathrow Airport in — arriving on Canadian soil wearing an ivory dress with navy lace overlay from London-based Canadian designer Erdem Moralioglu.
The couple was greeted by a group that included Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and his mother, as well as nine-year-old Kellen Schleyer, who presented Kate with a bouquet.
A motorcade whisked the royal newlyweds off to their first official engagement at the National War Memorial, where they were greeted by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife Laureen.
For the thousands of fans gathered, Kate seemed to possess the most star power.
"We love you, Kate!" a group of girls shouted.
"Where's his wife?" a group of older women asked as William drew near. "I want to see her."
William laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and Kate laid a bouquet before observing a moment of silence. The couple embarked on their first Canadian walkabout as they left, greeting the ecstatic — and sometimes shrieking — crowd with security personnel watching closely.
Winnipeg couple David Diakowich and Lionel Leston were in Ottawa to celebrate their fourth wedding anniversary on July 1, and they staked out their royal-watching spot at 5:30 a.m. Leston said it was the down-to-Earth reputation of Will and Kate that was so appealing to him.
"Monarchs do kind of have this reputation for being a class apart," he said, describing the duke and duchess as "playful" in contrast.
Joanne Pappas was hoping for her second close encounter with royalty, having met the Princess of Wales when she visited Ottawa 15 years ago. Pappas was so flustered by the meeting that she forgot to remove her gloves before shaking Diana's hand.
"I still have the gloves. Obviously I didn't wash them," she said.
By the time the royal motorcade arrived at the Governor General's residence for the official welcome ceremony, more than 6,000 fans had crowded onto the grounds and lined the driveway, many of them sporting red-and-white maple leaf clothing or elaborate fascinators inspired by royal wedding fashions. A few royal-watchers perched in trees for a better view and Rideau Hall staff members weren't immune to the excitement, peering out upper-floor windows.
Governor General David Johnston and his wife Sharon greeted the royal newlyweds with the prime minister and his wife at the foot of the driveway. The three couples worked their way slowly toward the house, waves of screams and fluttering flags marking Will and Kate's progress as they split up and wove back and forth to greet fans lined up six-deep along barricades.
This time, the crowd seemed just as enthusiastic about William as they were over his bride.
One woman clasped his hand and declared "I love you," and he accepted a bouquet of flowers from a group of girls holding signs beckoning "Prince Charming."
Kate took her time working her way through the crowd, falling behind William until an aide suggested they needed to move on, and she paused to shake one more hand before joining her husband.
The couple appeared relaxed as they strolled up to the red carpet — vacuumed by a Rideau Hall staff member just before the motorcade arrived — in front of the residence, and William stood on a ceremonial platform to receive the royal salute. As he inspected the 100-member Guard of Honour and stopped to talk with members of the army and air force, Kate stood chatting casually with the Governor General, the prime minister and their wives, taller in her beige patent heels than all except Harper.
The Governor General and prime minister both spoke before the duke gave his first address to Canadians, with Johnston drawing huge cheers when he welcomed the couple to "the honeymoon capital of the Commonwealth."
"Your journey across our fair dominion marks the beginning of your journey into the hearts of Canadians," Harper said. "We wish you all the best, on both counts."
He congratulated the couple on their recent marriage and expressed regret that a federal election campaign had kept he and his wife Laureen from attending the April 29 wedding. When he assured the royal newlyweds that they'd tuned in from a hotel room in Montreal, Laureen Harper touched Kate's arm and the duchess flashed her a broad smile.
After the speeches, Aurelie Thibault and Sophie Graydon, both seven years old and with fathers serving in the military, brought Kate a brightly-hued bouquet. Bending at the waist, the duchess grinned at the slightly overwhelmed little girls and said, "Thank you so much!"
While the tour had until then taken place under sunny skies, rain started falling early Thursday evening, forcing the event planned for the terrace of Rideau Hall to be moved indoors.
There Will and Kate joined 120 outstanding young Canadians for a "casual, barbecue-style event," before they were to retire for the night to recover from their long travel day and rest before July 1 festivities.
The duke and duchess will kick off Canada Day with a citizenship ceremony at the Canadian Museum of Civilization just across the bridge in Gatineau, Que., where 25 new Canadians will take an oath of citizenship.
William will present each of them with a folded Canadian flag and Kate will give them a small hand flag, but the Sons of Scotland band also has a gift for the couple — a new composition called the St. Andrews Courtship, a nod to the Scottish university where the world's most famous newlyweds met as undergraduates eight years ago.
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hardhack will be at FrOSCon http://www.froscon.org/ in Sankt Augustin, Germany on August 21 and 22, 2010, and will include hands-on hardware workshops and demos. Do you have a hardware-based workshop or demo and would like to be included in the FrOSCon hardhack demo area? Drop us a line by June 20th, 2010 to firstname.lastname@example.com with the following information:
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* your contact info: email, website, cellphone number
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Travel costs may or may not be reimbursed, depending on need and the ability to secure sponsorship for hardhack workshops. Please include your needs in your submission. We look forward to hardware hacking with you!


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Thursday, November 1, 2012
2013 Promo Schedule - What do you want?
Last week during the press conference introducing Carl Crawford, I spoke to a ticket representative and he told me "Expect more bobbleheads". I'm assuming the Dodgers will be giving away 6 to 10 bobbleheads next year.
I'm a big fan of the bobbleheads so I don't mind but please, no more Fernando Valenzuela bobbles. Please.
I'd like to see Nancy Bea Hefley and Jaime Jarrin get a bobblehead. That would be nice. Oh, don't be surprised if they give away a Magic Johnson bobblehead.
I like the beach towels and blankets. Fan of On Field Photo Day and Viva Los Dodgers events.
I really don't care about the Friday night fireworks.
I would love it if the Dodgers give away a baseball card team set. Remember those Mother's Cookies baseball cards?
Looking forward to tomorrow's announcement.
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- DDGRDUG said...
How about pin day? remember when they would give out pins way back in the day? I also remember the mothers cookies trading card days and the D.A.R.E. cards too. I also wish they would stop with the "First 30K" BS and make all giveaways "First 50,000" because unless you get to the stadium by 530 you're SOL. Im sure we'll be seeing an Adrian Gonzalez and Hanley Ramirez bobblehead.
- November 1, 2012 at 2:27 PM
- Alejandro said...
I have no problem with the guidelines with which to get the giveaway item.
As I've said before, if you want to make sure you get one, you'll find a way to get there on time.
I'd also like to see the return of the baseball card sets or the pin sets they used to give away.
my predictions for bobbleheads next year.
If they do 6, here's what you're looking at:
Hanley Ramirez
Adrian Gonzalez
Carl Crawford
Magic Johnson
Jaime Jarrin
Nancy Bea Hefley
if they do more than that, I predict Clayton Kershaw, A.J. Ellis as possibilities.
I'd kinda like to see a reunion of the 1988 World Series championship team since it is going to be the 25th anniversary next year, either that or how about a 50th reunion of the 1963 World Series team? that'd be cool.
- November 1, 2012 at 2:50 PM
- MarcoS. said...
2013 is the 100'th year anniversary of Ebbets Field opening. I say the Dodgers have to celebrate this event with giveaways and a patch the players will wear all season. Also with the movie coming out in April and his daughter now a Dodgers committee, it's time we finally got a Jackie Robinson bobblehead.
I too do not care for fireworks fridays. Save your money Magic, and axe that promo.
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So im currently in the process of redoing my garage and trying to plan out the electrical. Money is a factor so im wondering if a custom made fridge(essentially a frame with insulation and ac) is as viable as a fridge? Does anyone who has used both have some sort of opinion or technical advice to weigh in? I dont have any specs or plans for the custom yet but i know its possible, ive seen others talking about it.ThanksJeff
I am turning my 5' x 10' basement cellar into a a cold room with an A/C unit and a coldbot. I have a friend that did this in an even bigger space and he maintains 40 degrees no problem.


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A new website has been launched enabling people to search their postcode and find out if they live in or near a house that once belonged to a soldier or sailor from the First World War.
Most of the houses listed on the site are in Europe or the United Kingdom. However, many other countries are also represented, as shown in the above screenshot. I found three soldiers near me (in the United States) who apparently served in the Canadian or British armies but listed their residences or their next of kin with U.S. addresses. All three died during the war.
Usage of the site is simple: enter a postal code and see the World War I soldiers and sailors listed at nearby addresses. If a lot of results are displayed, you can narrow the results further by first name, surname, rank, regiment, age at death, or date of death.
The map was put together as a personal project by 50-year-old James Morley, who lives in West London and has worked with museums and archives for over 25 years.
A Street Near You currently contains nearly 500,000 location records for 410,000 men and women who died whilst serving in the First World War. It was created using data and images sourced from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Imperial War Museum, including their Lives of the First World War project.
You can access the database at: https://astreetnearyou.org.


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April 23 @ 9:30 am - 10:00 am
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Carolyn Kaster / AP
President Obama spoke Sunday morning at a campaign event in Concord, N.H.
Updated 1:30 a.m. ET With the hours quickly running out before voters render their verdict, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigned Sunday night in Pennsylvania, an eleventh-hour foray into a state that no GOP nominee has won since 1988.
Speaking to a chilled crowd in in Bucks County, a county which President Barack Obama carried in 2008 with 54 percent of the vote, Romney said, "We're only two days away from a fresh start. Two days away from the first day of a new beginning."
As he has for several stops in the last two days, Romney alluded at his Bucks County event to Obama's comment on Friday that "voting's the best revenge," by saying, "In his closing argument, this is last week, President Obama asked his supporters to vote for revenge. For revenge. Instead, I ask the American people to vote for love of country."
A new NBC poll should give both presidential campaigns reason to hope. Obama comes in at 48 percent; Romney at 47 percent. Taking Sandy into account, 80 percent in the Northeast said they approved of the president's handling of Superstorm Sandy. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
He added, "He's hoping we'll settle. Americans don't settle. We build, we aspire, we dream, we listen to that voice which says 'we can do better'!"
Romney suggested to the crowd that they "reach across the street to that neighbor with the other guy's yard sign. And we'll reach across the aisle in Washington to people of good faith in the other party."
In a sign of hope for Romney, Obama's once-wide lead in the state appears to be slipping.
A new Allentown Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll Sunday showed Obama only 3 percentage points ahead of Romney, 49 percent to 46 percent. Another recent Pennsylvania survey, the Franklin & Marshall College poll, had Romney trailing Obama by only 4 percentage points among likely voters.
A Romney victory in the Keystone state, which has 20 electoral votes, would be one of the campaign's biggest surprises.
Asked by a reporter Sunday whether it was a little too late for Romney to invest time campaigning in Pennsylvania, Romney senior advisor Kevin Madden said, "No, because this is one of those states that came into view right after the first debate. And as a result it just presented a great opportunity…. And here you are with an incumbent president under 50 (percent in polling). We're essentially tied. We're over-performing in many of these critical areas of the state, like the Philadelphia suburbs, areas like Scranton, southwest Pennsylvania. So we see it as a great opportunity and traveling there today we think can help make a difference. And this is actually the perfect time given that you're 48 hours from people making a decision, given that that they don't have early voting there."
In addition to his Pennsylvania stop, Romney campaigned in Virginia, Florida, Des Moines, Iowa and Cleveland, Ohio.
Mitt Romney, striking a hopeful tone in the final days of the 2012 race, returned to Iowa, the state that launched his campaign.
After campaigning with former president Bill Clinton in New Hampshire Sunday morning, Obama touched down in Florida Sunday afternoon, then headed to Ohio for an evening rally, then to Colorado for a late appearance.
Romney reached out Sunday for the votes of independents who may be disenchanted with Obama, telling a crowd in Cleveland, "He promised to do so very much, but frankly he fell so very short. He promised to be a post-partisan president, but he's been most partisan, he's been divisive, blaming, attacking, dividing. And by the way, it's not only Republicans that he refused to listen too, he also refused to listen to independent voices."
Later in his speech Romney added another pitch to independents in Ohio: "Now so many of you look at the big debates in this country, and you don't look at them as a Republican or as a Democrat, but first as an American…. You hoped that President Obama would live up to his promise to bring people together to solve big problems, but he hasn't. And I will."
Two hours earlier, only eight miles away from the Romney event, Vice President Joe Biden campaigned in Lakewood, Ohio, accusing Romney and his running mate Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin of playing "a con game" in the waning days of the campaign. "They're running away from what they believe."
He appealed to Democrats to get out the vote in the state that decided the 2004 election and whose 18 electoral votes might well decide the election: "We need you Ohio. We need you. We win Ohio, we win this election."
President Obama is calling on his supporters and surrogates in the final two days before Election Day. His focus remains on Ohio, which offers 18 electoral votes. NBC's Kristen Welker reports.
In a NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Saturday, Romney was trailing Obama in Ohio 51 percent to 45 percent among likely voters, including those who were undecided yet leaning toward a candidate and those who voted early. The survey found that 3 percent were undecided.
Ryan was also campaigning Sunday in Ohio with a stop in Mansfield. As his first event Sunday Ryan, dressed in a Green Bay Packers jacket, arrived at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisc., to attend a tailgate party. Green Bay has ranked among the nation's top presidential campaign TV ad media markets in recent weeks.
Meanwhile Obama opened his day by rallying Democrats in the small but vital battleground of New Hampshire which has only four electoral votes of the 270 needed to win the presidency. George W. Bush carried the state in 2000 but Democrat John Kerry won it in 2004 and Obama won it in 2008.
"Just as we did when Bill Clinton was president, we gotta ask the wealthiest to pay a little bit more so we can reduce the deficit and still invest in the things we need to grow," Obama told a crowd in Concord, N.H.
The president told the crowd that on Saturday night he had consulted with his campaign advisers.
"I looked at David Plouffe, some of you know he's my big campaign poo-bah smart guy. But Plouffe and I looked at each other and we said, 'You know what. We're no longer relevant. We're props. Because what's happened is that now the campaign falls on these 25-year old kids who are out there knocking on doors, making phone calls, and then we realized, you know, pretty soon after they do their jobs then they're not relevant either because it's now up to you."
Romney will hold his final rally of the campaign Monday night in Manchester, N.H., underscoring again the significance of its four electoral votes.
In his first event Sunday in Des Moines, Iowa, Romney reminded his supporters how vital Iowa is to his campaign strategy: "I need Iowa – I need Iowa so we can win the White House and take back America, keep it strong, make sure we always remain the hope of the earth. I'm counting on you. Will you get the job done?"
A Des Moines Register Iowa poll released Sunday showed Romney trailing Obama 47 percent to 42 percent.
NBC News's Carrie Dann, Garrett Haake and Ali Weinberg contributed to this story


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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be looking to use emerging technology in products for livestock that could make animals on factory farms gain weight and absorb medications faster.
The technology in question is nanotechnology, the process of manipulating or creating matter at the molecular level. While there are a range of uses for nanotechnology, including the development of clothing and cosmetics, it has become particularly prevalent in the commercial food sector. Nestle, Heinz, Kraft, and other companies have cumulatively invested billions of dollars into the industry.
FDA told Reuters last week that it is "particularly interested" in using nanotechnology to change the chemical, physical, or biological makeup of livestock feed and drugs. The agency has a history of using dangerous or untested technology and additives, often keeping products on the market even after they have been proven as unsafe for human and animal consumption.
"We know far too little about the human health and environmental effects of this technology to allow it to slip into our food without rigorous assessment," said Jaydee Hanson, senior policy analyst for Center for Food Safety.
FDA released a series of guidances last week on the use of nanotechnology in food products, stating that the agency is not making "broad, general assumptions" about its safety. The documents "encourage" manufacturers to consult with the FDA on the safety of their products before rolling them out to the public, as the agency does not have enough data about potential safety issues of nanotechnology in food products for humans or animals.
The agency has come under fire several times in recent years from public health and consumer watchdog groups such as the Center for Food Safety and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) for its irresponsible oversight of additives in food and medicine, particularly on factory farms. In addition to loosely regulated experimentation with nanotechnology, FDA was also found to use harmful additives like arsenic in order to make animals gain weight faster.
Last year, the Center for Food Safety filed a lawsuit against FDA to respond to a petition, filed by public health and environmental groups, asking the agency to withdraw additives containing arsenic from approved livestock feed.
Arsenic is often used in poultry feed to induce faster weight gain. The petition, filed in 2009, showed the harmful effects that organic arsenic compounds can have on animals and humans alike, as well as its tendency to convert into inorganic, cancer-causing toxins. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in 2006 called public attention to FDA's use of arsenic in livestock feed, but the agency made no significant changes to its policy since then.
FDA also knowingly allowed the widespread use of "high-risk" additives that didn't meet the agency's own safety standards, a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) recently showed. FDA reviewed 30 different antibiotic feeds used to promote growth and prevent disease in animals and poultry on factory farms, where conditions are often unsanitary, and concluded that the products exposed humans and animals to antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Almost all of these additives are approved for use today and at least nine continue to be marketed.
Further complicating matters is the issue of transparency in food and drug approval regulations; a report published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) noted a range of concerns regarding nanotechnology that are shared by NGOs and consumers alike, including sufficient safety testing; public awareness of the presence of nanomaterials in food and products; and consideration of the ethics of nanotechnology. According to the report, "nearly all advocacy NGOs... expressed a desire for industry and governments to implement measures of some kind to protect the health and safety of workers and the public from the consequences of unregulated release of commercial nanoproducts into the environment."
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Bisons Job Fair – March 6
The Buffalo Bisons will hold their annual Job Fair on Saturday, March 6 at Pettibones Grille Restaurant inside Coca-Cola Field (10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.).
The Bisons are looking for seasonal employees for the 2010 season. All applicants must apply in person.
The positions available include: Concession Stand Managers, Cashiers, Cooks, Restaurant Servers, Commissary Personnel, Porters and Game Day Grounds Crew.
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BROWNELL, Frederick Gordon. Flagging the "new" South Africa, 1910-2010. Historia [online]. 2011, vol.56, n.1, pp.42-62. ISSN 2309-8392.
Over the past century, distinctive flags have been devised for and adopted by South Africa on three occasions. The first of these came soon after Union in 1910 and followed a standard pattern applied throughout the British Empire. The second saw the hoisting in 1928 of a national flag in recognition of South Africa's independence. This flag served South Africa for two generations, but was progressively rejected by sections of the population as a symbol of apartheid. The momentous announcement by President F.W. de Klerk at the opening of parliament on 2 February 1993 set in motion the formal negotiation process within South Africa, which came to fruition on 27 April 1994. As part of this process, the present national flag came into being. This article sets out the steps taken and how the process initially floundered. It also considers how the final design of the new national flag, which has become the primary symbol of identification of South Africa and its people, finally came into being.
Keywords : Blue Ensign; Red Ensign; national flag; national symbol; "new" South Africa; Multi-Party Negotiating Council; Vexillology.


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now to ask a simple qeustion: i saw that the SDL library supports openGL, too.
now my question is, wheter it is worth using or wheter i should just use the 'real' openGL.
- does it cause performance loss?
- is it _AS FLEXIBLE AS_ the 'real' openGL?
- i guess it is a lot easier, isnt it?
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Posts tagged 'dedication'
What we do matters.
We wrapped up the season last week at the CSA where I work, Sunrise Farm. To celebrate a successful season, the farm took the farmers to the Farmer's Diner for breakfast, where we enjoyed good food and even better conversation.
At one point, someone brought up the futility of compact florescent lightbulbs. Her point was, not only does it not matter what we do as individuals when it comes to light bulbs, light switches, or where we set the thermostat in our homes, but that it actually gives us a feeling that we are doing our part, when all of these measures are ineffective. So we lose focus on what needs to change, by spending time changing lightbulbs.
This happens to run exactly counter to my own belief, that we as individuals can create change in the world, and that we do. Each one of us, with each choice we make.
It led to a lively and lovely discussion, with all of us providing facts and ideas for all sides of the question.
One of us made the point that finally quieted everyone down. It went something like this–if an object (or problem) is large enough, fifty or fifty thousand or even fifty million people pushing on that object is not going to budge it an inch. But if we bring intelligence to the question, if we look at where can we push, where can we focus our energy to get this thing to move–then it takes only one of us, or five of us, to create movement.
We bring our dedication to a problem, to our practice, to a seemingly unmovable mass. We may push and shove, recruit our friends, cross over into stubbornness and then wear ourselves out, and nothing changes.
Then we bring our dedication and our wisdom to a problem, to our practice. We push intelligently. We use all the tools we can find. We know when to take breaks. And, pushing on just the right spot, we cause this mass to move, we begin to unravel this huge problem, we begin to see progress in our practice.
So, yes, what we do matters. How we do it matters, as well.
The only thing better than good food is good food for thought served right along with it.
Uppup now offers a line of organic t-shirts for adults and kids, and an adorable onesie for the babes! And we remain 100% solar powered.
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South Lake Tahoe, CA…On 01/12/13 the South Lake Tahoe Police Department was contacted regarding a possible fraud. A resident of South Lake Tahoe received a phone call from a male subject who identified himself as an agent with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The male told the resident he was investigating a mail order prescription purchase the resident had made in 2006. The resident was told to send/wire $1000.00 to avoid being arrested on criminal charges for making an illegal prescription purchase via the internet. The resident called the police and did not send the money.
The DEA is aware of this scam and has posted a warning on the DEA website advising criminals are posing as DEA Agents and attempting to extort money from people who have purchased prescriptions via the internet. The impersonator tells the person they will take action, which includes arrest, if they don't pay a fine. The person is instructed to wire transfer money which is usually to an overseas account.
If anyone is ever contacted by someone who claims to be DEA Agent or any law enforcement officer and demands money or any other form of payment, it is a scam! Law enforcement officers will never contact anyone and demand money in exchange for their not being charged or arrested for a crime. Never give anyone your personal or financial information over the phone or e-mail unless you have verified who the person is and what company they work for.
Please go to the following page on the DEA website for more information about this scam. If you have been the victim of this scam please contact the DEA at 1-877-792-2873 or notify your local law enforcement agency.


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InStyle shows us what to expect from Zara Home's online launch.
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Welcome to Troop 157's website and thanks for visiting to find out more about us. Our Troop focuses on boys, their families, and having fun while we are learning! Boy Scouts is for boys 11 to 17 years of age. Boys also may become Boy Scouts if they have earned the Cub Scouting Arrow of Light Award and are at least 10 years old or have completed the fifth grade and are at least 10 years old.
Have younger boys try Cub Scouts, Pack 157 is also chartered by St. Thomas More church. You can check out their website at http://pack157manalapan.scoutlander.com
The troop meets at 7:00 pm– 8:30 pm on 2nd, 3rd and 4th Thursday evenings each month unless otherwise notified. The 1st Thursday each month is for meetings of the scouts who are elected or appointed as patrol leaders (i.e. Patrol Leaders Council or "PLC"). The meetings take place at St.Thomas More Church located on 186 Gordons Corner Road. If schools are closed for any reason on a Thursday there will NOT be a scout meeting.
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How To Avoid Losing Your House To The Bank in ATLANTA
If you have found yourself on the brink of foreclosure, there are a few things you can do to avoid losing your house to the bank. In our latest post, we will outline several ways you can stop the bank from foreclosing on your ATLANTA house! Nobody wants to find themselves in a place where … Continued


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With roughly two weeks to go until Windows 8 is generally available, Microsoft has pushed out a cumulative update set to make improvements to various aspects of the operating system.
As announced by Steven Sinofsky on Tuesday in a surprisingly brief blog post, the updates address performance, power management and battery efficiency, media playback, and compatibility and are now available on Windows Update for those of you who are already running the RTM bits. The update is rather sizable; Robert McLaws, an enthusiast who downloaded the update pointed out on Twitter that it is roughly 170MB in size.
That's pretty impressive. In Sinofsky's post, he talks a bit about how 8-12 weeks usually passes from when Microsoft ships the finalized Windows code to manufacturers, to when the operating system is generally available. This time is usually used by OEMs to ensure that everything works well; drivers are compatible, companion software (i.e bloatware) works fine, etc., but there are times when "changes and improvements" need to be made to the fundamental aspects of Windows.
He also touches on how major "bundles" of updates are traditionally delivered on Windows through service packs. Various changes are made by Microsoft for each OEM and their new PCs, and said changes are deployed during manufacturing and therefore remain unnoticed by consumers. These changes may apply to a wider range of PCs, but there's no time to properly test and certify these updates. Therefore, they may only be pushed out on a broader scale with the first service pack of Windows.
However, the update process has been improved with Windows 8, as Sinofsky notes:
During the final months of Windows 8 we challenged ourselves to create the tools and processes to be able to deliver these "post-RTM" updates sooner than a service pack. By developing better test automation and test coverage tools we are happy to say that Windows 8 will be totally up to date for all customers starting at General Availability. If you are an MSDN or enterprise customer, these updates will be available for your Windows 8 PCs via Windows Update as of today (October 9), following our standard cadence for Windows Updates on the second Tuesday of each month at about 10:00am.
Good stuff. I wonder if Microsoft will continue this update pace beyond the interim period of RTM and GA, frequently pushing out significant updates without waiting to bundle them within a service pack.
For more on the update (KB 2756872), check out the Microsoft Support article.


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New requirements for Venezuelans to hold "humanitarian visas" before entering Peru will drive large numbers of migrants into the informal economy, where they will lose protection, assistance, and government services, aid groups are warning.
Peru is the second most popular destination country after Colombia for the more than four million Venezuleans the UN estimates have fled their country's economic and political meltdown since 2015.
There are now more than 768,000 Venezuelans in Peru, including more than a quarter of a million new arrivals since the start of the year, many of whom rushed in to take advantage of the country's comparatively strong economy - and job opportunities - before recent restrictions came into force.
Read more → Worries grow as more Venezuelans look to Peru
Until 15 June, Venezuelans could enter Peru and apply for a temporary residency permit, or PTP, which allowed them to live and work in the Andean nation for a year. This permit, which also gave them access to training, healthcare, and public education, could be renewed on an annual basis.
But President Martin Vizcarra announced in early June - six months after giving a deadline for the final PTPs to be issued - that Venezuelan migrants would now be required to obtain a "humanitarian visa" before entering the country.
The visa, which allows holders to live and work in Peru, is free, but aid officials fear most aren't able to obtain it as securing the required documentation is costly and beyond the reach of most Venezuelans, whose minimum wage has fallen to $5 per month due to the acute economic crisis.
"Measures like these may generate an increase in human trafficking, trafficking of migrants, and illicit border crossings," warned Rogelio Quintero, programme director in Lima for the IOM, the UN's migration body.
Quintero said that not having a proper entry stamp - denoting the visa - now puts Venezuelan migrants in irregular situations that means they lose all access to public services.
Laurent Burkhalter, head of the protection division at the International Committee of the Red Cross regional office in Lima, said the new measures were making it very difficult to plan as they didn't know how many Venezuelans would need which services as they budget ahead to 2020.
"Contingency plans for international humanitarian activities are being updated," said Burkhalter. "The level of unpredictability is rather big."
A staff member of Peru's foreign ministry, which is responsible for migration, told The New Humanitarian that the new measures are aimed at "improving" conditions for Venezuelan migrants.
The staff member, who asked not to be named, said that after the PTP programme ended many Venezuelan refugee applicants were unable to "easily" enter the legal economy, which the humanitarian visa allows migrants to do.
"The Peruvian government is concerned about all the people who may enter into informal work, and particularly those who put in danger their own human dignity, that may involve people-trafficking and labour and sexual exploitation," he said.
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The new visas can be obtained at Peru's consular offices in Caracas and in Puerto Ordaz, a city 950 kilometres southeast of the Venezuelan capital. They are also available in Peruvian consular offices in Colombia, Brazil, and Ecuador, but not at the border crossing points or in Peru itself.
Applicants must have valid passports and present a clean criminal record. Entry with the visa allows Venezuelans to stay for up to six months - a period that may be renewed on demand - during which time they are allowed to work and receive the same benefits they did under the PTPs.
Angelo Malpica, a Venezuelan former student now working as a waiter at a restaurant in the Peruvian tourism hub of Cusco, told TNH that corrupt officials back in Venezuela set the fees according to how quickly people are trying to leave.
"It's a dictatorship [in Venezuela] and [officials] can interpret the law as they wish," he said, adding that obtaining a copy of clean criminal record can cost more than $100, in addition to $300 or more for a passport.
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Requests to the Venezuelan embassy in Geneva for comment on the price of the documents and allegations of fraud - which several other Venezuelans also raised with TNH - went unanswered by time of publication.
The new measures represent an "insurmountable barrier" for most Venezuelans wanting to enter Peru, according to The Working Group on Venezuelan Human Mobility, a collection of civil society organisations from around the region that includes Amnesty International and the NGOs Mercy Corps and Oxfam.
The group urged that asylum applications at the border not be affected. Venezuelans may request asylum status online if they are in the Peruvian capital, Lima, or at a regional office of the foreign ministry, which processes the requests. But the application process is slow and hard. According to numbers published in the El Comercio daily, only 400 of 240,000 Venezuelan applicants by February this year had succeeded in achieving refugee status.
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Daily numbers of Venezuelans crossing into Peru rose steadily last year, but spiked to a record 6,700 on 31 October 2018, the last day before they could enter without a passport. A new record of more than 9,000 entered on 14 June 2019, the last day before the visa restriction became law.
In the week following the implementation of the visa law, numbers were sharply down. On 20 June, some 645 entered through official crossings, according to IOM.
Many doubt the tighter regulations will actually halt arrivals.
Juan - a Venezuelan tattoo artist living in Cusco who arrived in Peru early this year after travelling through Ecuador on a fake entry stamp - explained that corrupt officials and taxi drivers are routinely willing to "help" Venezuelans cross illegally.
"It doesn't matter if you don't have a visa or a passport; everything has a price," said Juan, who requested that his last name not be published. "You can go from Venezuela [all the way] to Chile without police or immigration officials stopping you."
Upon arriving at the Peruvian border, Juan said he simply took a cab early in the morning to avoid the morning shift at the immigration office. "The systems throughout the continent are corrupted," he said.
The Peruvian Red Cross is setting up a welcome centre for new arrivals in southeastern Puerto Maldonado, the first city in Peru for many Venezuelans coming from Brazil. The centre aims to help newcomers locate family members and offers information on where to locate social services.
"They leave their families behind and are moving toward an uncertain future," Maria Josefina Garcia, the president of the Peruvian Red Cross, told TNH. "Coming here wears them down a lot. It hurts. Before giving them a survival kit, we will offer psychological help."
Garcia criticised the new entry requirements, saying they expose new arrivals to greater vulnerability, including smugglers and traffickers: "This will force corruption, abuses, illegality, as there will be no control or border checks for those entering into the country informally. That is not good."
Migrants, she warned, may be tempted to enter illegal sectors of employment. "There is a lot of illegal mining here. These young people, women, men, may disappear without a trace."
Police estimate that some 30,000 people are involved in illegal gold mining in Peru, including in Puerto Maldonado, where the metal - mined from vast deforested areas of the Peruvian Amazon - is bought and sold. As many as 100,000 people are estimated to rely on the sector.
The visa rule came after Interior Minister Carlos Moran linked a rise in crime in Peruvian cities to the higher numbers of Venezuelans.
Announcing the new requirement at Lima's airport as 52 Venezuelans were deported on a military plane to Caracas, the third such flight in less than a month, President Vizcarra said it would "assure orderly and secure migration", and vowed to expel those who entered illegally.
"We will not accept people who commit crimes," Vizcarra said. "[We will expel] whatever number is necessary: 500, 800, 1,000, or 2,000."
Garcia, the Peruvian Red Cross president, noted a rise in xenophobia towards Venezuelans in Peru. "A lot of people say, 'these immigrants come to bother us'," even though they are coming to contribute to the economy, she said.
Quintero said the IOM was sensitive to criticism that humanitarian groups may be focusing too much on Venezuelan migrants at the expense of Peru's own vulnerable populations.
In recent months, IOM and UNHCR have organised goodwill projects, such as rubbish collection by Venezuelan migrants on beaches and flash mobs featuring Venezuelan musicians in Lima.
"People here are kind and sharing," said Malpica, the waiter in Cusco. "I really like that. I don't find it is unjust, but rather sad that they want to restrict us. In a country of 30 million or so people, we are not so many Venezuelans that one would need to restrict us."


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Fainting Fancies are a type of sweet sold by Fred and George Weasley for their Skiving Snackbox to get students out of lessons. Fainting Fancies are designed to make the eater faint within seconds. In 1995, Fred and George fed them to first years in the common room to test them, until they were stopped by Hermione Granger, who did not approve. There is some question as to how an unconscious person would be able to eat the second half of the sweet, though it is possible that he might just need a friend to put it in his mouth.
In the 1995–1996 school year, while the twins were still at school, this is one of the many Skiving Snackbox sweet varieties that they had sold and tested on students, and they were used to allow students to skip classes, but mainly as part of the Umbridge-itis disease to annoy the tyrannical Dolores Umbridge. In this year Harry used them on Slytherins.[1]
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Solar Activated Linear Evaporation Systems
{Nature_and_Environment.23.1}: support your local clothesline {wren1111} Sat, 17 Jul 2004 18:51:34 CDT (HTML)
If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of
coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you don't
have to wait to start. Yours could be up by this afternoon.
{Nature_and_Environment.23.2}: Richard Witty {gisland} Sun, 18 Jul 2004 06:55:46 CDT (4 lines)
I use a dryer. Most do. Better smell, more control, faster, it rains, takes less time, cogenerates heat.
{Nature_and_Environment.23.3}: Richard Witty {gisland} Sun, 18 Jul 2004 06:57:55 CDT (11 lines)
Design a BETTER mousetrap and people will use it. Its the same with cars. Cars are violent, noisy, add to the toxic waste stream, expensive, dangerous, isolating. But, WE have not designed better alternatives, so people still pick the best that they have available. Fast, flexible, available on demand, comfortable, intimate.
{Nature_and_Environment.23.4}: Tom Elliot {telliot} Sun, 18 Jul 2004 08:29:24 CDT (HTML)
Of course it helps that I live where the humidity is rarely over 30%.
{Nature_and_Environment.23.5}: Richard Witty {gisland} Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:01:29 CDT (3 lines)
Solar. Useful, but limited. Useful, not reliable.
{Nature_and_Environment.23.6}: Suzanne Griffith {sggriffith} Sun, 18 Jul 2004 13:44:19 CDT (4 lines)
There are so many moderately hard-working, intelligent people who care in the world that if we stopped driving them crazy with other people's agendas they could do their jobs and set up usable regional power systems.
{Nature_and_Environment.23.7}: Tom Elliot {telliot} Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:39:00 CDT (HTML)
{Nature_and_Environment.23.8}: Richard Witty {gisland} Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:30:33 CDT (9 lines)
Its up there with "you can't rely on anyone else but yourself". For those on the grid, a solar charged UPS system is USEFUL. For the 99.98% of the time that the grid is functioning, PV and wind contribute but are not reliable. They are more reliable ultimately than nuclear, or hydro during a severe drought, or when fuels are literally unavailable.
{Nature_and_Environment.23.9}: Electrician {gregarious} Wed, 10 Nov 2004 13:28:05 CST (1 line)
How about wind?
{Nature_and_Environment.23.10}: Jan Rickey {jrickey} Tue, 30 Nov 2004 18:23:48 CST (6 lines)
Just surfing the Forums, but I had to put my 2 cents in about clothespins. When the weather outside doesn't allow outside drying, I use a portable clothesline indoors. It helps to introduce humidity into the house, which my plants and sinuses love. And, after all, it does eventually stop raining. So there is always the option of holding off on laundry until then.
{Nature_and_Environment.23.11}: Helge Hafstad {hhaf} Mon, 06 Dec 2004 16:03:50 CST (7 lines)
Linear evaporation system, use it all the time. Our dryer (we have one... :) gets very little use. Only when something needs to get dry urgently. Clothes dry overnight in our washing room and we have lines on a 2nd story terrace under the roof (i.e. rainproof). Our el. bill is already 15% below that of the previous owners of our house.
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Remember that animal-shaped terracotta pottery from the '80s that you had to smear wet seeds on which would later sprout "hair" (grass)? Who knew that you could, A. actually eat those slimy seeds, and B. over 20 years later they'd be revealed as a healthy addition to your diet? Yep, I'm referring to the Chia Pet and those little chia seeds that adorned them.
Formally known as Salvia hispanica, the flowering chia plant is native to Mexico. Its seeds have been cultivated for food since the age of the Aztecs, being as important a crop to them as maize (corn). When soaked in a liquid, chia seeds puff up — absorbing about 12 times their weight — and form a gelatinous outer shell (chia "gel"). Aztec warriors would use them as a portable food staple during battles, supposedly being able to be sustained for a whole day after consuming just one tablespoon of chia gel.
What is it about the chia seed that's got the health food community going ga-ga for them, you ask? They've got a ton of nutrients packed into their tiny shells: the USDA claims that one ounce of chia seeds contains 9 grams of fat, 11 grams of dietary fiber, 4 grams of protein, and provide 18% of the recommended daily intake of calcium. They're chock full of antioxidants and omega-3 fatty acids (read: the good fats), too.
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